Browsing by Subject "memory"

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Composition and the uncanny : a methodological account of composition in visual arts
(2001) Ertem, Fulya
This study aims at giving an account of composition in visual arts by basing itself on the notion of uncanny. In that respect the works of three different surrealist artists, Max Ernst, Giorgio De Chirico, and Joan Miro, will be analysed in terms of their compositional uncanniness, by taking into consideration writers who analysed the uncanniness of these artists’ works. As an addition to those writers’ ideas, the aim of this thesis will be to find some new aspects of compositional uncanny in order to challenge the traditional account of composition in visual arts, as a source of visual resolution into unity.
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Encountering a site-specific work of art : concerning the relationship between image and memory in the conceptual framework of Walter Benjamin
(2003) Kaptan, Başak
This thesis derives from the dual relationship of image and memory in Walter Benjamin’s texts on literature and art criticism. This relationship is conveyed to sitespecific art and analyzed in terms of space and time. As a consequence of this comparative study, the role of the reader/viewer is discussed and for the account of his/her encounter, a possible experience between perception and recollection is proposed. As a documentation of the proposed experience, a sitespecific artwork is produced and presented.
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Keepsake : meanings, practices and tactics of making and preserving memory
(2010) Sağdıç, Kalben
This study is an attempt to conceptualize what a “keepsake” is within the context of subjective and social usage in relation to death and mourning. The phenomenon of memory keeping is examined not only as a subjective collation but as an objectifying, inalienable practice during which material qualities and mnemonic value of the keepsake are revealed. Ancestral memorials‟ encoding continuity between and across generations, types of display of a keepsake as well as types of mourning/object keeping, are the focai of the study. A test study aiming to provide an understanding and a basis for more profound researching of keepsake as a social phenomenon is conducted, borrowing methods of ethnography and sociology. The discourse of “object-cathexis” and the “perennial nature of objects” as Zygmunt Bauman argues are discussed in order to analyze human-object relations within the framework of mourning.
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Odour intensity learning in fruit flies
(2009) Yarali, A.; Ehser, S.; Hapil F.Z.; Huang J.; Gerber, B.
Animals' behaviour towards odours depends on both odour quality and odour intensity. While neuronal coding of odour quality is fairly well studied, how odour intensity is treated by olfactory systems is less clear. Here we study odour intensity processing at the behavioural level, using the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. We trained flies by pairing a MEDIUM intensity of an odour with electric shock, and then, at a following test phase, measured flies' conditioned avoidance of either this previously trained MEDIUM intensity or a LOWer or a HIGHer intensity. With respect to 3-octanol, n-amylacetate and 4-methylcyclohexanol, we found that conditioned avoidance is strongest when training and test intensities match, speaking for intensity-specific memories. With respect to a fourth odour, benzaldehyde, on the other hand, we found no such intensity specificity. These results form the basis for further studies of odour intensity processing at the behavioural, neuronal and molecular level. © 2009 The Royal Society.
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The world in-between : cinematography
(2000) Yavuz, Nur
And cinema. The importance of saying and... and...and.... Images neither starts nor ends, they occupy the in-between. Cinema and philosophy come together to show the power of the in-between. Images understood as such are neither psychoanalytic nor linguistic determinants. The immanent flow of images with its undetermined intervals is what enables us to contemplate on time and movement and memory and consciousness and percepts and affects... And philosophy.